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The idea of having an elected mayor in Hollister became closer to reality this week as the City Council reached tentative agreement on some of the terms of the transition away from the current five-member, rotating mayor system now in place.

Purple Cross Rx, the medical marijuana dispensary that is battling San Benito County in order to stay open on Bolsa Road, is conducting a holiday toy and food drive through Christmas Eve.

Police searched a home on Bella Vista Court on Wednesday night and arrested three residents on suspicion of drug offenses, according to a statement from the Hollister Police Department.

A Morgan Hill man killed a wild bobcat because he thought it killed some of his roosters, according to authorities.

Hazel Hawkins Hospital is considering following the lead of local schools by adding solar panels to offset energy costs.

As the holiday season gets under way, local groups are coordinating a variety of ways to help the less fortunate, from holiday dinners to food and toy drives. Here are just a few of the collections and fundraisers planned for the holiday season. If you know of other events in the coming weeks, let us know at (831) 637-5566 or [email protected].

A project to re-pave a nearly two-mile portion of a frontage along San Felipe Road in Hollister should be done by the start of December, a city engineer confirmed.

The number of San Benito County children classified as overweight or obese declined by 5.6 percent from 2005 to 2010, according to a report released by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research last week. The study, put out by the organization with support from the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, looks at children in the fifth, seventh and ninth grades across the state.

The San Benito County Board of Supervisors received a presentation Tuesday on a 10-year plan to end homelessness in the San Benito and Monterey county area – the outcome of 14 months of planning and meeting between stakeholder agencies in the region.